Primer is an independent film that won both the Grand Jury Award and the Alfred P. Sloan Award at the 2004 Sundance film festival. I was introduced to this movie last night by my roommate Chris. It starts up a little slow. You are introduced to the main cast consisting of four friends who all have full time jobs, but have been taking turns trying to come up with a business idea that will take off. So far, none of the ideas have been winners. They spend an extra 30 hours a week doing experiments in the garage of a generic house in an unnamed town. One day the two main characters Aaron and Abe make an astonishing discovery in the garage. They must decide how to use the device they invented and then how to deal with the consequences of using it.
The actors' dialog was excellent in that it sounded like they were actually talking. This movie was definitely worth seeing. The end becomes difficult to follow which warrants watching it multiple times. Apparently out of the 80 total minutes shot for the movie, only 4 were cut out. That's one hell of a good ratio. I give this movie a 8/10 for it's dialog, budget, and intelligence. Primer is no action or comedy movie, it is for the mind.
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primer was pretty awesome.. the way they handle the paradox of time travel was neat and ultimately believeable.
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